The VisdeurBot is an AI image-recognition system designed to identify different species of fish which are commonly found in the Weerdsluis lock canal in Utrecht, which lies upon a major migratory path for several species of European fish. To prevent the predation of fish waiting for the locks to open, the town has created the fish doorbell ("visdeurbel" in Dutch) project where people can watch a live feed of cameras at the locks, and notify a lock-keeper if fish are present so that the locks can be opened.
A photo of a snoek (pike) at the lock canal.
My original idea with this project was for the system to be able to detect fish in real-time from the video feed from the Visdeurbel website, but I started the project in August, and the feed is only accessible during the migratory season, usually from early March to late May. I will try and add this functionality next year, but for now the system detects fish from local video or image files. You can see the detection system running in the GIFs below:
